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architecture and design magazineSun, 02 Aug 2015 20:00:09 +0000en-UShourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2"Everyone will be interested in making things instead of buying things" - Janne Kyttanenhttp://www.dezeen.com/2013/08/09/we-want-to-put-3d-printing-in-every-home-janne-kyttanen/
http://www.dezeen.com/2013/08/09/we-want-to-put-3d-printing-in-every-home-janne-kyttanen/#commentsFri, 09 Aug 2013 09:49:09 +0000http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=343849Freedom of Creation co-founder and 3D Systems creative director Janne Kyttanen tells Dezeen that he believes one day everyone will have easy access to 3D printing in the first of our series of video interviews with pioneering figures in the world of additive manufacturing. Update: this interview is featured in Dezeen Book of Interviews, which is […]

]]>Freedom of Creation co-founder and 3D Systems creative director Janne Kyttanen tells Dezeen that he believes one day everyone will have easy access to 3D printing in the first of our series of video interviews with pioneering figures in the world of additive manufacturing. Update: this interview is featured in Dezeen Book of Interviews, which is on sale now for £12.Janne Kyttanen

In the movie, Kyttanen says that the actual technology behind additive manufacturing hasn't changed much in recent years, but the interest in it has rocketed.

The Cube desktop 3D printer by 3D Systems

"When it comes down to the technologies themselves, fundamentally nothing has changed," he says.

"The biggest change that has happened is the awareness. People know that these things exist; they know the possibilities. Also, the ease of use of software: pretty much everything is getting easier and easier and once that happens the masses start picking it up."

In 2011, Kyttanen's design studio Freedom of Creation, which pioneered the use of 3D printing technology to create consumer products, was acquired by American 3D printer manufacturer 3D Systems and he now acts as creative director for the company.

Having been at the forefront of 3D printing since the 1980s when the company's founder Chuck Hull invented stereolithography (SLA), 3D Systems has recently turned its attention to the consumer market. In 2012 it launched the Cube, an affordable desktop 3D printer promising the kind of plug-and-play simplicity we have come to expect from the electronic products in our home.

"We want to put 3D printing in every home," says Kyttanen. "A lot of the home machines that came on the market were open-source and people could tinker with them. What we're trying to do is to make products where you can just open the box, take out the machine, plug it in, send a file and it starts printing. That's truly what's happening with the Cube."

The Cube is a simple fused-deposition modelling (FDM) machine, which builds up objects layer-by-layer using a plastic filament fed into a heated print nozzle. "The Cube is the most plug-and-play 3D printer on the market at the moment," Kyttanen claims.

"Everyone will get interested in design and making things instead of just being consumers and buying things," he says. "The designer's role [will be] merely creating better templates for all these people."

He continues: "If you want to customise something for yourself, now you have the ability to do that. You can make any shape you want. Now everybody has the power to do whatever they want, with very easy tools."

It is this ability to customise products, Kyttanen says, which will drive the demand for 3D printing in the home.

"People always ask me what would be the killer product for the technology, what would sell the most," he says. "I always tell people that I don't think it's a product at all, I think it's the empowerment itself."

]]>http://www.dezeen.com/2013/08/09/we-want-to-put-3d-printing-in-every-home-janne-kyttanen/feed/10Printing products at home is "cheaper than shopping"http://www.dezeen.com/2012/10/21/printing-products-at-home-cheaper-than-shopping/
http://www.dezeen.com/2012/10/21/printing-products-at-home-cheaper-than-shopping/#commentsSun, 21 Oct 2012 00:07:28 +0000http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=257202News: consumers can save money by printing products at home rather than shopping for them, according to Janne Kyttanen, co-founder of design studio Freedom of Creation and creative director of 3D printer company 3D Systems (+ interview). Kyttanen said 3D printers are now so affordable that you they can print "normal household products" more cheaply […]

News: consumers can save money by printing products at home rather than shopping for them, according to Janne Kyttanen, co-founder of design studio Freedom of Creation and creative director of 3D printer company 3D Systems (+ interview).

Kyttanen said 3D printers are now so affordable that you they can print "normal household products" more cheaply than you can buy them. "This iPod Nano holder for example costs two Euros to make," he adds, holding a plastic strap, which was printed in a just over an hour on 3D Systems' new Cube printer (above). "So why go buy something when you could just make your own things?”

Marcus Fairs: “We first met in Milan nine years ago, at the first Freedom of Creation show.”

Janne Kyttanen: “Nine years ago, yeah.”

Marcus Fairs: “That was the first time I’d seen objects that had any design sensibility that had been made using 3D printing techniques. Tell us about that adventure and what’s happened to you and what’s happened to 3D printing in the last nine years.”

Janne Kyttanen: “When I started everything was very, very expensive so it was very difficult to get the whole thing going. My dream was always to start an industry instead of designing individual products. So I think the first five, six, seven years were extremely difficult both financially and in terms of having people believe in the vision. Only in the last three years things have exponentially started moving forward to an industry that I always envisioned. And especially the last year. It’s going great.”

Marcus Fairs: “And why has it suddenly taken off in the last two or three years?”

Janne Kyttanen: “There’s some [3D printing] patents that have run out and of course there's now massive awareness towards the whole story; and to be honest the pricing. You can [print] normal household products, like this iPod Nano holder for example, which costs two Euros to make. So why go buy something when you could just make your own things?”

Marcus Fairs: “You mentioned patents expiring. So companies that had the patents for these manufacturing technologies were preventing it from being widely taken up?”

Janne Kyttanen: “That happens in any technology. Once restrictions are removed, the bigger crowd starts to flourish.”

Marcus Fairs: “Freedom Of Creation is now owned by 3D Systems. Tell us about that merger, that takeover, and tell us about the company you now work for.”

Janne Kyttanen: “That happened about a year and a half ago. We've been talking for a number of years about how I always envisioned that the consumer world would be the final frontier for this type of adventure. They had something that I needed: technology, software, finance and a whole bunch of people running in the same direction. I had of course 12 years of valuable content that we can just quickly get going, instead of them getting other designers or buying somewhere else to get it going. So it was for me a match made in heaven.”

Janne Kyttanen: “Yeah. 3D Systems originally started 25 years ago, so it actually invented the whole technology and the whole industry. [3D Systems co-founder] Chuck Hull invented stereolithography [in 1986]. But we have pretty much all the print platforms: stereolithography, selective laser sintering and so on. And the latest venture is on a bigger scale: we're entering the consumer market with the Cube."

Marcus Fairs: “And the Cube is what?”

Janne Kyttanen: “It's an extrusion machine that has a heated nozzle that makes things in 3D. It’s very very simple.”

Marcus Fairs: “And this is aimed at the consumer market?”

Janne Kyttanen: “Yeah, yeah. It's £1,199. So it’s an entry-level machine for anybody to buy for the home.”

Marcus Fairs: “So this is not aimed at designers to prototype products with; it's aimed families to have fun with?”

Janne Kyttanen: “Yeah I mean we have a slogan called 'it’s for kids from eight to eighty'. So anybody can use it.”

Marcus Fairs: “And where is this kind of technology taking manufacturing, taking the design world? There’s been a lot of people saying ‘Oh it’s the end of the big manufacturing cycle of, you know, big mega-brands and mega-corporations’, but is it? Or is it just a bit of fun?”

Janne Kyttanen: “Wasn’t the web going to be the killer for paper? And so forth. So I don’t think anything will replace anything, it’s just that a massive 3D manufacturing industry will also grow I believe. These are just some new technologies, just a new thing.”

]]>http://www.dezeen.com/2012/10/21/printing-products-at-home-cheaper-than-shopping/feed/7Invisible Shoe by Andreia Chaveshttp://www.dezeen.com/2011/03/13/invisible-shoe-by-andreia-chaves/
http://www.dezeen.com/2011/03/13/invisible-shoe-by-andreia-chaves/#commentsSun, 13 Mar 2011 10:09:52 +0000http://www.dezeen.com/?p=120221Brazilian Fashion designer Andreia Chaves has created a series of 3D-printed shoes in collaboration with Amsterdam rapid prototyping studio Freedom of Creation. The collection includes a pair covered in a mirrored shell, called Invisible Shoe, and another where the nude leather upper is visible through the same 3D-printed framework. More mirrors on Dezeen » More […]

The first commercial studio series by designer Andreia Chaves will be launched at this years’ Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week (February 10-17). The series entitled ‘Invisible Shoe’ will be shown in New York in a exhibition organized by Mercedes-Benz in collaboration with designer Herve Leger and this will be followed in March 2011 by a launch in Asia in association with I.T Hong Kong as well as the opening of the new store I.T Beijing Market Comme Des Garcons.

Described as a study of optical effect applied to shoe design, the ‘Invisible Shoe’ series explores the concept of invisibility though the ‘chameleon effect’ while the shoe’s reflective finished surface creates an obscured optical effect with each step taken. This innovative design greatly exceeds the primary function of the shoe, where "protecting" the foot also means "deleting" or "immersing" it into the environment.

The series, which will be available in limited edition, in three different models, is handmade in Italy using a combination of leather making techniques together with advanced 3D printing technology. For the development and manufacture of the external structure, Chaves has collaborated with the renowned Dutch Company FOC (Freedom Of Creation).

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]]>http://www.dezeen.com/2011/03/13/invisible-shoe-by-andreia-chaves/feed/8Cross by Karim Rashid for Freedom of Creationhttp://www.dezeen.com/2011/01/24/cross-by-karim-rashid-for-freedom-of-creation/
http://www.dezeen.com/2011/01/24/cross-by-karim-rashid-for-freedom-of-creation/#commentsMon, 24 Jan 2011 12:09:10 +0000http://www.dezeen.com/?p=113398Cologne 2011: designer Karim Rashid launched this 3D-printed lamp for Dutch brand Freedom Of Creation at imm cologne in Germany last week. The product features icons from Rashid's work, including crosses, stars, splats and blobs, overlapped and built up into a rounded cross-shape. Called Cross Lamp, the design is available at a floor, pendant or […]

Freedom Of Creation, Dutch company for innovative design editions realized through advanced 3D printing technologies pioneered by FOC itself, starts the New Year and its second decade since its foundation with a prestigious collaboration. Polyhedral star designer Karim Rashid has conceived the amazing “Cross” lamp for Freedom Of Creation (FOC), launched on the occasion of IMM furniture fair. Karim Rashid is one of the most prolific designers of his generation.

“I thought to make a hyper-collage of my icons as a lit object, in changing scale and mass to create diverse shadows and light filtration, to really make one overriding blobular 3-d cross form, which is my symbol for Globalove,” says Karim Rashid regarding his astonishing “Cross” table, floor and suspension lamp designed for FOC. The 3D Cross is composed of an infinite number of small icons alluding to Karim’s most famous and iconic forms.

"CROSS Lamp": A suggestive "cross-shaped" lamp - available in suspended and table versions - made up of the agglomeration of Karim Rashid's most memorable icons. The cross form is Karim Rashid's symbol for Globalove.

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]]>http://www.dezeen.com/2011/01/24/cross-by-karim-rashid-for-freedom-of-creation/feed/11Movie: the making of Electric Light Shoe by Freedom of Creationhttp://www.dezeen.com/2008/01/26/movie-the-making-of-electric-light-shoe-by-freedom-of-creation/
http://www.dezeen.com/2008/01/26/movie-the-making-of-electric-light-shoe-by-freedom-of-creation/#commentsSat, 26 Jan 2008 21:17:50 +0000http://www.dezeen.com/2008/01/26/movie-the-making-of-electric-light-shoe-by-freedom-of-creation/Dutch designer Freedom of Creation have sent us a short movie showing the making of Electric Light Shoe, the giant, rapid-prototyped, illuminated trainer containing a miniature city that they designed for footwear brand Onitsuka Tiger (see our earlier story). The movie shows how the metre-long shoe was designed on a computer, then manufactured piece by […]

]]>Dutch designer Freedom of Creation have sent us a short movie showing the making of Electric Light Shoe, the giant, rapid-prototyped, illuminated trainer containing a miniature city that they designed for footwear brand Onitsuka Tiger (see our earlier story).

The movie shows how the metre-long shoe was designed on a computer, then manufactured piece by piece on a selective laser sintering machine. More info on this project here.